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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) today carried out a new military operation against US military facilities across the region in retaliation for previous air strikes against infrastructure and civilian facilities in the northern part of Iran.
On Wednesday, the Revolutionary Guard and the Iranian Army carried out multiple operations as part of Operation True Promise 4, which was launched immediately after the US-Israeli coalition attacked Iran. Iranian armed forces have so far carried out 82 waves of missile and drone attacks with advanced weapons, targeting Israeli military facilities as well as US bases and assets scattered throughout the West Asian region. The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement and the Islamic Resistance in Iraq also joined the front against external aggressors and dealt heavy blows to the enemy.
The Revolutionary Guard also issued a warning to US-Israeli forces to consider a possible ground operation on Iranian territory.
The statement warned, “Do not send your children to hell with the deceptions of Netanyahu and Trump. The occupying soldiers will be deeply drowned and destroyed in the million-strong sea of the Iranian nation.” In a direct appeal, the IRGC addressed the American people, warning that they were being misled by warmongers like Trump and Netanyahu through lies and distortions of battlefield facts.
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The statement said, “You must observe the reality of war in American gas stations, on the streets of Iran, in the skies of Tel Aviv and Haifa.”
The Pentagon is expected to deploy troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East, according to a report by CBS. The report, based on a source familiar with the planning, stated that the Pentagon plans to send division elements, including the command element and some ground forces, to the region. The USA is also planning a possible land operation on Kharg Island.
The Revolutionary Guard also said its precision-guided Emad, Qiam, Khorramshahr-4 and Kadr missiles hit more than 70 locations across Israel in the 81st wave of Operation True Promise 4. The IRGC Public Relations Department claimed that the missiles successfully hit Haifa, Dimona, Al-Khudriyya near Haifa, and areas north and south of Tel Aviv.
